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hey guys i was wondering if any body has tryed doing a web bassed application with a bar code scanner?

 

see im doing an web site for my boddy that is opening a gym and he wants an application that could contain the members information and that when they come in they need to scan there membership card.

 

see the thing is ,is that the cursor needs to be always in the box so when it scans a card it retreives the members info.but if the guy is doing something else thats what messes me up??

 

im a clear?lol

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Well... there's like half a zillion programming languages, with Visual C++ and Java being quite a popular choice. Although if you don't know them by know, learning them to the point where you can create a database based application could take you quite a lot of time.

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Scanner's producer has most likely published a library, or details of protocol if it's using a serial port. C++ or it's variant would probably be the best choice. AFAIK you can connect it to mysql as well, although I never tried it.

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Scanner's producer has most likely published a library, or details of protocol if it's using a serial port. C++ or it's variant would probably be the best choice. AFAIK you can connect it to mysql as well, although I never tried it.

 

Yup, there's a MySQL API for both C and C++.

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I think what he was trying to get at is that he knows PHP/MySQL/etc but not languages for desktop apps (c++/etc).  If that's the case he could always just run an internal website not accessible to the internet and use that.  Not the right tool for the job, but a tool he already knows how to use at least.

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if you can connect your scanner via a port to your server

you can use "Direct IO FUNCTIONS" in php.

 

just take a look here:

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/ref.dio.php

 

interesting..

 

i think i will stick to the web based application.all he has to do is scan the card .

i can always transform his pc to a server with wamp..

 

still looking in to this..thx guys!

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